Summary

Today was more of a “hello, how are you” day than a day of hard work. In this lesson, you learned a little bit about Perl history and background, why it's a fun language and why it might be useful for you to learn. After all that background in the first half of the lesson you got your first glimpse at what Perl scripts look like and how to get them to run on your system. You also learned the difference between Perl one-liners and scripts, some basic information about comments, Perl statements, and how Perl scripts run. At this point, you should have Perl installed on your system and ready to go—from here on, it's all code.